Upcoming Concerts & Events
Bespoke for Broadwood: music for the divided sustaining pedal
Thursday 17 October at 7.30pm - West Road Concert Hall
David Owen Norris, 1828 Broadwood Grand Pianoforte
This concert is part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas.
David Owen Norris, 1828 Broadwood Grand Pianoforte
This concert is part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas.
An intimate evening with David Owen Norris playing on his 1828 Broadwood Grand Pianoforte Mendelssohn’s Sonata in E Op. 6 and Rondo Capriccioso along with Sterndale Bennett’s Sonata Op. 46.
For the first thirty years or so of the nineteenth century, Broadwoods sawed their wooden sustaining pedals in two, the right-hand half raising the dampers from middle C up, and the left-hand half raising the dampers from middle B down. Mendelssohn and Sterndale Bennett (Prof. of Music at the University of Cambridge from 1856 to 1875) were just two of many composers who took advantage of this potent device. Have a look to this video, where Professor David Owen Norris talks about these wonderful instruments.
David Owen Norris’s Broadwood pianoforte displays all these devices to perfection.
For the first thirty years or so of the nineteenth century, Broadwoods sawed their wooden sustaining pedals in two, the right-hand half raising the dampers from middle C up, and the left-hand half raising the dampers from middle B down. Mendelssohn and Sterndale Bennett (Prof. of Music at the University of Cambridge from 1856 to 1875) were just two of many composers who took advantage of this potent device. Have a look to this video, where Professor David Owen Norris talks about these wonderful instruments.
David Owen Norris’s Broadwood pianoforte displays all these devices to perfection.
The Sense of Hearing
Wednesday 13 November, 7pm - Recital Hall, Anglia Ruskin University
The Brook Street Band & Roots Baroque Ensemble
The Brook Street Band & Roots Baroque Ensemble
As part of the Roots Education Project, The Brook Street Band has put together “The Sense of Hearing”, a concert featuring Bach, Handel and Telemann where you will be able to listen to the recently created Roots Baroque Ensemble, made up of aspiring young musicians based in Cambridgeshire who have been working with The Brook Street Band during the year and will perform two short works by Purcell and Handel.
Eccles' Semele
Tuesday 26 November at 8pm - Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge
AAM Orchestra and CHOC singers
AAM Orchestra and CHOC singers
Cambridge Handel Opera Company, Cambridge Early Music and Academy of Ancient Music join forces for the first time for a rare concert performance of John Eccles' Semele.
Semele is a lively retelling of the story of Jupiter’s pursuit of the Theban princess. Juno plots her downfall by persuading her to insist on seeing him in his divine form, whereupon his thunderbolts consume her. Planned for the opening of London’s Italian Opera House, Semele was never performed at the time, and the libretto is best known today from Handel’s later Oratorio.
It is a highly dramatic and effective response to the text in an attractive idiom mixing English and Italian elements and deserves to be better known.
Semele is a lively retelling of the story of Jupiter’s pursuit of the Theban princess. Juno plots her downfall by persuading her to insist on seeing him in his divine form, whereupon his thunderbolts consume her. Planned for the opening of London’s Italian Opera House, Semele was never performed at the time, and the libretto is best known today from Handel’s later Oratorio.
It is a highly dramatic and effective response to the text in an attractive idiom mixing English and Italian elements and deserves to be better known.
Dates for your diaries - tickets will be available soon
Gabriel's Message
Thursday 12 December at 7.30pm - Emmanuel URC
Mediva Ensemble
Thursday 12 December at 7.30pm - Emmanuel URC
Mediva Ensemble
Music for an English Advent.
The fire crackles and the spiced wine is warmed with carols and estampies from medieval England, celebrating the Angel Gabriel’s visitation to the Virgin Mary. A range of songs and dances from 12th - 15th centuries buried in manuscripts now housed in Cambridge, Oxford and London libraries. All composed by the ever prolific Anonymous. Let the winter festivities begin!
Tickets for this concert will be managed by Cambridge Early Music with a new ticketing system. We will announce as soon as these are available to buy.
The fire crackles and the spiced wine is warmed with carols and estampies from medieval England, celebrating the Angel Gabriel’s visitation to the Virgin Mary. A range of songs and dances from 12th - 15th centuries buried in manuscripts now housed in Cambridge, Oxford and London libraries. All composed by the ever prolific Anonymous. Let the winter festivities begin!
Tickets for this concert will be managed by Cambridge Early Music with a new ticketing system. We will announce as soon as these are available to buy.
N.B. Bookings via Cambridge Live will close one or two days before the concert. Tickets will still be available on the door.
The Friends of Cambridge Early Music have joined up with the Hughes Hall Music Society to found Insight, a series of early music events with a difference, taking place in the Pavilion Room, Hughes Hall, Mortimer Road, Cambridge CB1 2EW.
The series resumes in the autumn of 2018 after the renovation of the Pavilion Room.
Tickets are free but booking is essential; please contact friends@cambridgeearlymusic.org or telephone 01223 411762.
Jennie Hawks
Chairman, Friends of Cambridge Early Music
The series resumes in the autumn of 2018 after the renovation of the Pavilion Room.
Tickets are free but booking is essential; please contact friends@cambridgeearlymusic.org or telephone 01223 411762.
Jennie Hawks
Chairman, Friends of Cambridge Early Music
